Sharing our Human Experience

Wednesday Wisdom: Sharing Our Human Experience.

I have been sharing the news of my mother’s recent death with many people–extended family, friends, colleagues, people at church, as well as my yoga teacher, my spiritual director, and women in the locker room at the pool that I’ve known for years.

There is such a community feeling to grief; people know it; they respond to it; and most people offer comfort in a genuine and organic way. I’ve received so many hugs, and words of consolation. I’ve heard so many stories of others that have lost parents and loved ones.

Sharing my sad news with others has created such a warm sense of community with others. Loss is part of life, and sharing that loss  allows us to become more deeply human with one other. Now, I understand more deeply the true meaning of one of the spiritual works of mercy is: Comforting the Sorrowful. 

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Let us open ourselves, become vulnerable with each other, and share in our human journey. It deepens our experience of being human, and allows us to receive God’s loving mercy through one another.

Comfort is a shelter, a warm blanket, a refuge. Fortunately, we do not need to do anything extraordinary to produce comfort, because it is something that already exists within each of us and all around us. Real comfort can be found in the context of daily living. It is a grace. We just need to open our arms and receive it. We just need to open our arms and give it.